The good thing is, I can start working on it again now. I know why I felt so stymied and unable to get back to the writing. Now everything is a whole lot clearer.

Now to see if I can pull this one off. WAVERLEY is a story that’s been near and dear to my imagination for quite a while now. When it went off track, it went majorly off track. But it’s back on track now.

I felt quite despondent last night, Molly. Went to bed thinking, “I can’t write fiction … I can’t write fiction”. But I feel much better today about things. So at least I got a whole lot of clarity out of this.

Can I get a big round of applause for being back on track? How about a “Hell ya!”

Wow, you nuked 30k words? I’m not sure I written that much in my life. That takes guts in my book and I am glad the “movie” is going to start playing the way you envisioned.
.-= Steve´s last blog ..Sticks and Stones =-.

I’ve never done this before, Dorte. I’ve always liked everything that I wrote when I put it down for a while and then reread it. So it was a bit of a shock finding that once I got past a certain point, the story didn’t grip me. Then I took a good look and saw that it wasn’t actually the story I was wanting to write.

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